<nettime> Swatch's Internet Time is BUGGED (was Re: net.times, not swatchtime)

["Hellekin O. Wolf" <hellekin@imaginet.fr>]

I really wonder how such an autocratic decision of 'inventing' an Internet
time, based on a corporate HQ's time would pass. 

Maybe Swatch people thought the inertia would be so long that a wide
acceptance would be achieved before any serious action could be taken ;
though it is more probable that they even didn't think about that. 

At least they didn't think about the SIT (!) bug... 

Let's take an example : 

"On December, 20 @005, all Swatch-related web servers worldwide will
fall." 
...And sorry for those who miss the 20th and act on 21th

*

By assuming Internet Time on a physical day basis, Swatch people fell into
the gap between material and immaterial and made their concept born-dead
on a more-than-one-day basis. A chance for them they put both times on
their watches. 

*

The concept of Internet Time is interesting though as it allows not to
compute the timezones for online events synchronization. And it saves 5
chars ;) On the Internet we really dont care of biorythm when it comes to
tell people from all over the globe to gather for a chat or synchronize
hacktivities worldwide. 

Now is 19:52 GMT+1, Swatch's : 828, mine : dinnertime-15minutes. 


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